Nettle tea

[davholla]

I have quite a lot of nettle tea rotting on the patio.
In the Garden I have apple trees (doing well some in pots), raspberries (ok), gooseberries (some ok but lots without fruit, more later), tomatoes in pots, blueberries in pots, mulberry in pot and jostaberry.

Which of these would be best served by this?

[davholla]

[goodlife]

You can give it to all but blueberries and particularly if you mix drop of tomato feed with it. But on its own raspberries would benefit from it best..nettle tea has bit more nitrogen in it than other 'teas' and raspberries need to put lot of green growth on for new canes so that would suit them well.
Blueberries are bit different with their nutrients up take..they need most of their nutrients earlier on the season when they come to leaf..and as they have very thin roots and close to surface they are easily damaged with feeds. Ideally those you would feed after applying mulch and while the compost is moist and the ericaceous fertilizer need to be watered in. When you have used the tea up and you have the 'mush' left in the bottom..let it dry out over winter..crumble it up and mix it with ericaceous compost or peat and apply it as mulch on surface. That stage the spent nettles would serve blueberries well as the excess nutrients would have been used up by then.

[Poolcue]

I have got some down at the allotment.Should I use it neat on my raspberries or dilute it?

[goodlife]

Always dilute..what ever type of 'tea' it is as you don't really know the 'strenght' of it and by using it neat you can scorch the plant roots.
I would also always give the compost drink of plain water first so you don't fertilize dry compost..just for same reason.

edit to add.. last comment with dry compost apply to plants in pots..I'm sure there is plenty of moisture in the soil..particularly after all this rain..

[Poolcue]

Always dilute..what ever type of 'tea' it is as you don't really know the 'strenght' of it and by using it neat you can scorch the plant roots.
I would also always give the compost drink of plain water first so you don't fertilize dry compost..just for same reason.

Thanks :)